quad9.net
Quad9
Who runs Quad9, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest public DNS resolver alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NextDNS
Measured from Quad9’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Quad901 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Quad9
Quad9 quad9.net
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
Wikidata: DNS service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Quad9 tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
11 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Quad9
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Quad9, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Very close - 02
AdGuard DNS — ad-blocking DNS server
Create your ad-blocking DNS server that will protect your personal data, prevent tracking and allow you to control access to specific content on the Internet.
Very close - 03
company
Very close - 04
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Very close - 05
Control D | DNS Filtering for Every OS
Encrypted DNS filtering trusted by 100M+ users. Blocks malware and trackers on every OS. Flat fee per endpoint. Start free.
Very close - 06
CleanBrowsing | DNS Content Filtering Service
Affordable DNS filtering that blocks malware, adult content, and unwanted sites. Protect schools, families, and businesses at the network level.
Very close - 07
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
ad- and tracker-blocking application
Very close - 08
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 09
The Shadowserver Foundation
The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone.
Very close - 10
Hyphanet
free software
Very close - 11
Home
Boost subscriber performance by up to 25% for less than 1% of your overall 5G network investment.
Very close - 12
Best-Rated DNS Filtering Service | DNS Security | DNSFilter
The DNS filtering service trusted by 57,000+ organizations. DNSFilter's DNS security software blocks malware, phishing, and unwanted sites in minutes.
Very close - 13
Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.
Very close - 14
development and dissemination of internet software and tools
Very close - 15
Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
Very close - 16
.ORG - Power Your Inspiration. Connect Your World.
For diverse global communities & individuals who want to do great things online, .ORG is purpose-driven to empower & connect those who inspire the world.
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DENIC eG: DENIC – Registry for all .de domains
As the registry, DENIC manages all .de domains and ensures that they are accessible at all times.
Close - 18
Internet country-code top level domain for Canada
Close - 19
I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN
I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.
Close - 20
For confidence online | SIDN
At SIDN you can check your .nl domain name. We also can offer you security services, like SIDN BrandGuard.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Quad9’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Quad9 uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Quad9 adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Quad9’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.quad9.net include:mail.zendesk.com include:s…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.quad9.net include:mail.zendesk.com include:s…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.22.1
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=pubFqUAodApNRC6sXcA_NNli9mak_IIlLSu6SWjyvPg
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=EhulLkEHEcEGaLail027zEvZEfO54vuTRtNOKfY9
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Cloudflare · not on quad9.net 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on quad9.net 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on quad9.net 7/20
- jQuery · not on quad9.net 6/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on quad9.net 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on quad9.net 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on quad9.net 5/20
- cdnjs · not on quad9.net 4/20
- PHP · not on quad9.net 4/20
- Atlassian · not on quad9.net 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on quad9.net 3/20
- Apple Business · not on quad9.net 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on quad9.net 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on quad9.net 3/20